I was reading the politics room and somehow I went from 'read new' to 'read forward'. It was an odd blast fromt he past. A mixture of 'yea I knew that', 'that is old news', and when will these new message end? I thought there was only six.'

So I'm down in my work room (which looks suspiciously like a storage room,
but with more bookshelves and leather scraps and tools and empty beer bottles)
and I fired up the vintage 2004 iBook (1Ghz G4, 768M RAM, 20G HD) to watch
more Clone Wars DVDs, since that's all it is good for these days. On a whim,
I decided to check my e-mail, too (which doesn't require a modern browser,
just ssh).

Even just tooling around and doing basic tasks with this machine, I'm reminded
that their hardware really does have quite a bit of polish, and the interface
is pleasant and consistent. My other computing environments are Windows XP
(which is, I grant, a little behind the power curve) and Linux Mint Debian
Edition (the Cinnamon desktop, I think). I like the latter quite a bit, but
it still has some disconcerting oddities as far as where settings are placed
and how reliably certain basic things (e.g.
DVD playing) function.

No real point here. I just kind of wish I'd gotten a real chance to use
this machine when it was current. I had it for about three weeks, and then
my wife joined me (then in CA) and took custody immediately; I only got visitation
rights on "my" new laptop until I bought her a new one in 2010.